Sally Whitney on Wrecks and Ruins: “Entertaining and enlightening”

“Great novels inspire readers to see things in a different way. After reading Wrecks and Ruins, I will never see shards of glass, twisted bumpers, raw relationships, or tattered souls in the same way again. Stu’s quest to make sense of the pieces of life is entertaining and enlightening. With a cast of sympathetically human characters, it spins its way to a wholly satisfying conclusion.”

—Sally Whitney, author of 

When Enemies Offend Thee and Surface and Shadow

The Cicadas Will Return

 

Do you fondly remember the sound of those Cicadas all around us? Incessantly buzzing day and night? Almost as though they were announcing something big?

They were announcing something. All of that buzz is at the center of my forthcoming book, Wrecks and Ruins.

Wrecks and Ruins is being published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House Press in Spring 2022. The short novel is a sort of anti-love story that corrects itself. Spanning three cicada life cycles, a man who attempts to find art in the most unlikely of places makes a lot of other discoveries about himself and those in his life as well.

While you’re waiting for Wrecks and Ruins to arrive, why not catch up on some of my other novels? Find them all at www.EricDGoodman.com. 

Cicada Love Songs

The last time Brood X emerged, I was amazed at the change in the landscape—the look, the smell, and most of all, the sound of my Baltimore neighborhood transformed into an eerie alien landscape, something out of an old 1950s bug-eyed monster movie, the sound of aliens hovering on the horizon.

I was inspired to write “Cicadas” shortly after Brood X burrowed back into the ground. “Cicadas” was a short story, and one of my first to be both published in an anthology and featured on the radio.

When East Baltimore’s Patterson Theater hosted a Write Here Write Now reading in 2006, “Cicadas” became the first short story I read aloud to an audience as an author outside an academic setting. “Cicadas” would go on to be read on Baltimore’s NPR station, WYPR, in 2008, and published as the opening story in New Lines from the Old Line State: An Anthology of Maryland Writers (Maryland Writers Association Press, 2008).

Brood X is back. What better time than now to listen to the story they inspired last time they were with us? Take a ten-minute listen below—Cicada sound effects included!

https://yourlisten.com/edgewriter/cicadas